I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The number of homeless people in West Michigan has gone up significantly, caused by high unemployment rates, expiring unemployment benefits and a general economic malaise.
The state last year counted 13,332 men, women and children who were homeless in Kent, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, Ottawa and Allegan counties. That’s an increase of nearly 11 percent over the year before, according to the Michigan State Homeless Management Information System, which aims to get a better count of how many people live without a residence.
Those statistics do not count thousands who may choose to move in with friends or family instead of seeking help.
Experts believe more people will become homeless by the end of the year, with numbers possibly leveling off after 2010.
“This is going to be a major issue, and it could be a crisis,” said Janay Brower, coordinator of the Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness.
The report says that many homeless people actually work a job, they just don’t make enough money to purchase housing and are forced to live on the streets or in their car.
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